The Uncoupling Quotes

#1. But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!"
"Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#2. It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Ashton Kutcher

#3. When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.

Mark Hamill

#4. ...for no matter whether the relationship was of short or long duration, no matter whether the partners were rich or poor, gay or straight, young or old, living together or married, giving up the relationship was hard for both people.

Diane Vaughan

#5. Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.

Joseph Roth

#6. I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

Jesse Ventura

#7. We tell each other stories to muffle the surprise of disappointment.

Kevin Moffett

#8. Some women can handle a one-night stand. Others can't. And I have definitely been on the wrong end of those who can't. It ain't pretty.

Emma Chase

#9. Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.

Heidi Priebe

#10. The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Georges Pompidou

#11. Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?"
"Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

Anne Fortier

#12. Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

David Sedaris

#13. People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

Meg Wolitzer

#14. That looks nasty, I hope you've got a change of clothes back at the office. I guess now we know why real superheroes wear artificial fibers.

Charles Stross

#15. But not everyone you love is a forever. Sometimes you can love someone for a reason, and for a time, and although you never stop loving them, no matter how much they may betray you, you move on, because they aren't the one who makes you into an us.

Lauren Sabel

#16. The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.

Susan Jacoby